1. Mark P Wetjen is an American lawyer and a partner at the law firm, Dentons.
16 Facts About Mark Wetjen
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Mark Wetjen served for five months as acting chairman of the CFTC upon the departure of his predecessor, Gary Gensler.
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Mark Wetjen was the head of global policy at DTCC and CEO of MIAX Futures.
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Mark Wetjen was the head of policy and regulatory strategy at FTX US.
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Mark Wetjen was the top Washington adviser of Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, until FTX filed for bankruptcy and entered receivership.
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Mark Wetjen received a bachelor's degree from Creighton University and then a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law.
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Mark Wetjen then worked for seven years in the United States Senate as a senior leadership staffer where he advised on financial services issues including the Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform.
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Mark Wetjen championed the prioritization of end investors when developing risk-management policy at the CFTC.
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On November 3,2014, in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Mark Wetjen called for the establishment of a governmental regulatory structure for Bitcoin.
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Mark Wetjen joined DTCC as the head of global public policy in the fall of 2015.
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Mark Wetjen was later appointed chairman of DTCC DerivServ in 2019.
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Mark Wetjen joined the startup exchange operator Miami International Holdings as the CEO of MIAX Futures in January 2020.
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Mark Wetjen worked with MIAX to acquire the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
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In November 2021, Mark Wetjen became the head of policy and regulatory strategy at FTX US, a company distinct from FTX.
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Mark Wetjen was Sam Bankman-Fried's top Washington advisor during his aggressive attempts to lobby the United States Congress to pass legislation on crypto currency.
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Mark Wetjen has opined that federally supervised crypto markets would bring useful competition to US capital markets.